The official blog for the Pulp Magazines Project, an open-access digital archive of early twentieth-century pulp magazines

The Pulp Magazines Project has just added 8 issues of “dime novels” and “nickel weeklies” published between 1892 and 1922 to its website. The titles include Frank Reade Library, Tip Top Weekly, Nick Carter Weekly, Deadwood Dick Library, Buffalo Bill Stories, All-Sports Library, All Around Weekly, and Wild West Weekly.

Publishers represented by this group include Street & Smith, Beadle & Adams, The Winner Library Co., Frank Tousey, and Harry E. Wolff. Information and metadata listed alongside each issue includes publication date, year established, publisher, and an estimated total number of issues published.

For more information on the dime novels as a 19th-century publishing phenomenon, check out Tim DeForest’s chapter on “Dime Novels,” from Storytelling in the Pulps, Comics, and Radio: How Technology Changed Popular Fiction in America (2004). It can be accessed through GoogleBooks here.

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The Pulp Magazines Project has added 10 new issues of 3 classic pulp magazine titles to its full-text digital archive. These include the Feb. 1911 issue and complete 6-issue run of Vol. 53 from the summer of 1925 (Jun. 10, 20, & 30; and Jul. 10, 20, & 30, 1925) of Adventure, feat. Prisoners of War and When East Met West, by prolific British pulp authors Talbot Mundy and W.C. Tuttle, respectively (Jun. 10, 1925). Two issues of Blue Book (Jan. 1924 and Nov. 1926) feature Agatha Christie’s “The Plymouth Express Affair” (Jan. 1924) and H. Bedford-Jones’s “The Trail of Death” (Nov. 1926). In the Jul. 10, 1924 issue of Short Stories, you will find Harold Lamb’s “The Camp of the Snake” and Murray Leinster’s “Grist”. There are now a total of 312 full-text magazines available on the site.

For news and updates, along with a complete list of issues posted, check out our News & Updates page here.

The Pulp Magazines Project would like to thank the members of the Pulpscans Group, especially Saskia van de Kruisweg (ROC, Amsterdam) for beautiful scans, and Jan van Heiningen (Utrecht University) for generous access to his collection.

This brings the total number of full-text issues available on the PMP website to 282. In related news, the PMP website was migrated to a new server last week, which should result in faster download times, esp. for those large (50+ MB) PDF files.

Also, be sure to check out the history of Famous Fantastic Mysteries (Sept. 1939-Jun. 1953), the Munsey sf “reprint magazine… that introduced a new generation of readers to the scientific romances, lost civilizations, and otherworldly love stories of the early 20th century” (Nathan Vernon Madison, VCU).

And finally, in April, 6 new issues of Wonder Stories Quarterly (Sum. & Fall 1930; Spr., Fall, & Win. 1931; and Spr. 1932) were also made available on the site. For further news and updates to the site, along with a complete list of issues and title histories posted, check out our News & Updates page here.

This brings the total number of full-text magazines available on the PMP website to 254. For further news and updates to the site, along with a complete list of issues and title histories posted, check out our News & Updates page here.

The Pulp Magazines Project has added 10 new issues (and 4 new over-sized pulp titles) to its full-text digital archive. They include the Win.-Fall 1928 issues of Amazing Stories Quarterly, feat. A. Hyatt Verrill’s The World of the Giant Ants (Fall 1928); the Nov. 1946 issue of Mammoth Adventure, feat. Tom W. Blackburn’s The Cassock and the Sword; the January 1946 issue of Mammoth Mystery; the Summer 1932 issue of Wonder Stories Quarterly, feat. Raymond Gallum’s “The Menace from Mercury”; and 3 new issues of Planet Stories (May & Jul. 1951, and Jan. 1954). This brings the total number of full-text magazines available on the PMP website to 245.

And finally, in October and January, histories for Planet Stories and Dynamic Science Stories (Nathan Vernon Madison, VCU) were made available as well. For further news and updates to the site, along with a complete list of issues and title histories posted, check out our News & Updates page here.

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The Pulp Magazines Project has added 5 new issues of 2 classic pulp titles to its full-text digital archive. These include the Jun. 15, 1935 and May 1949 issues of Adventure, feat. Cleopatra’s Promise, by prolific pulp author Talbot Mundy (Jun. 15, 1935); and the May 1936, Mar. 1937, and Jul. 1938 issues of Blue Book, feat. short stories by H. Bedford Jones, along with William L. Chester’s Tarzan-inspired series, Kioga. There are now a total of 235 full-text magazines available on the site.

For news and updates to the site, along with a complete list of issues posted, check out our News & Updates page here.

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With the start of the new semester, the Pulp Magazines Project returns with regular monthly updates to its digital archive. In the final weeks of August, we’ve added to the project’s growing collection of pre-1923 pulps with new issues of The Black Maskand Top-Notch Magazine: